Donna Ashworth

Well, I just wrote that poem as I do all my poems.

It just went out on social media.

I didn't think it was for the NHS or anything like that until it started to be used by doctors.

It started in America.

Doctors were using it and schools were using it and they were all taking a line each and making it a bit of an anthem almost.

Then it came to the UK and then it was picked up by celebrities who were reading lines in schools.

You're seeing this on your social media?

I didn't know about it either.

until I was tagged in it and you're like oh you don't even know quite and Amnesty International wrote to me and said please can we send this poem out to all of our subscribers across the world and that was when I thought okay maybe I could

Maybe occasionally for someone's wedding.

So I was a songwriter in my youth, but I never quite made it.

Well, I didn't make it.

I don't know why I say quite made it.

Maybe.

It was a tough climb back then.

There was no internet.

Imagine trying to do things without... It's hard to...

explain to my boys that you couldn't just sort of sing a song and post it on instagram and be discovered you know you had to get signed and have a music deal and so many things had to fall did you perform the songs i did yeah i wrote them and sung them and um what was your style

I like to think I was really edgy at the time.

I wasn't.